Scrutables Quotes & Sayings

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J.L. Austin

It's tough. I mean the thing is that people don't realize how much people are looking at you and judging you and constantly try to, I guess, watch you fail, and hoping you do fail. — Logan Henderson

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did. — Edward P. Jones

speak across borders
even if borders pass through every word. — Ingeborg Bachmann

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it. — Brandon Sanderson

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse. — Mikhail Gorbachev

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen. — Barry Neil Kaufman

If you think of memory not just as looking back but as being aware of time and how it passes and what the passage of it feels like, then there is something about being in motion that does cause it. Through some sleight of mind, physical forward motion makes time seem visible. Which causes me to think that maybe the unnatural speed of cars and jets actually creates nostalgia. Because the simplest way to block out the strangeness of time passing before your eyes is to fix it in place, to edit it down to monuments or potted plants. Like, — Adam Haslett

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons. — Dennis Miller

You can do anything you want, so long as you're willing to pay the bill when it comes in. — Catherine Ryan Hyde